Objective: We are going to use the word “of” to compute percents mentally and use it to estimate percents. Percents “of’s”

Percent of a number-fraction Textbook pg. 351 helpful with fractions! 25% of 36 50% of 14 40% of 15

Percent of a number-fraction

Percent of a number-Decimal “of” means multiply Change % to decimal and multiply 20% of 85 125% of 64 72% of 50

Percent of number - Decimal 80% of 100 25% of 200 130% of 90 90% of 10 145% of 20 7% of 700

Word problems 600 tickets sold for raffle of concert. Probability you win is 7%. How many tickets did you buy? Wind power generates .00015 of worlds electricity. Write as a percent.

Word Problems Company made $350 million in sales. 0.9% came from internet sales. How much money came from internet sales? If a company gets 80% of sales and they made $45 million, how much money does the company get?

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